Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century England : : Defamation in The Ecclesiastical Courts, 1815-1855 /

Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century England : : Defamation in The Ecclesiastical Courts, 1815-1855 / / S.M. Waddams.

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'You are a nasty bloody thundering whore,' one Gloucester woman said to another in 1852. Most lawyers and historians are surprised to learn that until 1855 language of this sort was punishable in the ecclesiastical courts. In a study based on court records and lawyers' correspondence,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Waddams, S.M.,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: 'Grievous and oppressive to the subjects of this realm'
  • Part I: The Law
  • 1. The Common Law
  • 2. The Ecclesiastical Law
  • Part II: The Courts
  • 3. The Courts and Their Officers
  • 4. Patterns of Litigation
  • 5. Evidence
  • 6. Costs
  • 7. Penance
  • Part III: The Cases
  • 8. The Parties
  • 9. The Injury
  • 10. Motives
  • 11. Consequences
  • Postscript: 'A barbarous state of our law'
  • Tables
  • Appendices
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Table of Cases
  • Index

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